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Eh, a wedding I like any luxury item IMO. If you can really afford it and would "miss" that money, don't spend it. The same could be said about e-rings, cars we buy, eating out, clothes, hair cuts and color, etc. There could easily be a calculator of how much you would have if you didn't spend on this or that.
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We pretty much made it all back and came out more or less even!
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@PurplePumps: yep, or how "rich" you could be if you invested instead of having kids
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@Anya: no kidding, especially for those with IF spending thousands and tens of thousands to even get pregnant in the first place. Sorry kid, there went your college fund.
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We put in about 40% ($20K) of our wedding cost and my parents paid for the rest. I have no regrets, as it was one of the best days ever! Never again will I have all my closest friends and family together in one place. Luckily we recouped our $20K back in gifts!
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That was a depressing number...
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Not very. We spent less than $500 on getting married.
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@yoursilverlining: also, who is to say that people would've actually invested that money?
Though my parents paid for the wedding, we got the same amount in gifts. No regrets!
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Our wedding cost a fortune, it was amazing! I had the time of my life. We also had the honeymoon of a lifetime. When I was elbow deep in MOTN wakeups, blowouts and poop everywhere, those memories were instrumental in keeping me going. Wouldn't swap them for the world!
That said, I also enjoy a Fendi handbag so maybe my values are different:)
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I would be 1,500 "richer" but my dad paid for our wedding (8k--we got married on the beach) and it's only been a year and a half.
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we could have had a nice little nest egg, BUT we got married in 2008 so we could have lost most of it because of the stock market tanked after that
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That is a little depressing! However, I couldn't imagine not having our wedding, and we tried to keep it a budget wedding. I also included the cost of our honeymoon, which I would never want to give up. That trip was awesome!
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@bunnylove08: well really you would have made a fortune if you were reinvesting the dividends etc because you would have been buying at the low point and the market has rebounded and then some since then!
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@plantains: haha yes according to the site it would have been over 20K ... oh c'est la vie
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Meh--we only spent about $1000 in the first place--it was small and simple and we only had about 20 guests, but it was lovely!! $1000 well spent, I say!!
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No regrets. It was pricey, but we have a bunch of relatives pitch in so no one person spent it all. My in-laws threw in the most and I do wish they could have invested the money for themselves, but they wouldn't hear it.
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